Re: For the wish list

[David Ferster]

Goodness, I didn't mean to start a thread on the general issue of 
error display.

I must be a bad designer because I do just what you are saying is a 
no-no, which is to leave a small amount of real estate blank. The 
error indicators stay invisible until an error condition occurs, so 
that the panel is not cluttered with indicators for rarely occurring 
things. Sometimes I use "ugly" error indicators, and more often I use 
more elegant indicators, like a red or yellow square LED's with text.

I don't want to use popup windows in this case, since these are 
non-fatal warnings in programs that run unattended for long times. 
When fatal conditions occur, I often do use popups.

But I'm always open to suggestions.

David


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Aivaliotis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "David Ferster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 9:05 PM
Subject: RE: For the wish list

 On the issue of making an error cluster only visible on error. Do you do
 this on sub-vi's? If so, what is the point? If you do this on front
panels,
 this seems very ugly to use the raw error cluster. Just wondering...
Ugly in both cases, since when hidden there's a chunk of empty panel that
looks like nobody could be bothered doing a decent layout. Unless it's in
the foreground and there's some decoration there.
I also don't see the point of this- if a quick and dirty approach is needed
that should be invisible to the user, what's wrong with wiring the error to
the general error handler VI and letting it pop up a message?
--
Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer
Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/


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David Ferster
Actimetrics, Inc.
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